Example Sentences

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Do you know the way that goes Over fields of rue and rose,— Warm of scent and hot of hue, Roofed with heaven's bluest blue,— To the Vale of Dreams Come True?

From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

Think rather of a peaceful land, The changeless land where ye may be Roofed over by the changeful sea.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Roofed with woven bark, carpeted with moss which was planted on the floor, the place was abandoned, somewhat a bit musty, but weathertight and seemed comfortable to me.

From The Planet Savers by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

There's a wood-way winding high, Roofed far up with light-green flicker, Save one midmost star of sky.

From Ride to the Lady And Other Poems by Cone, Helen Gray

The soft moss sleeps upon the stone, Green scrub-vine traceries enthrone The dead gray trunks, and boulders red, Roofed by the pine and carpeted    With maidenhair.

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Stevens, Bertram